"Marc F Hult" wrote in message
...

Thanks for the suggestion. The mcs plug-in seems intrinsically very
capable
from what I could tell.

But I poked around the Homeseer site longer than I had patience for
without
finding a manual or any actual description. Did I miss it? And no url for
a
mcs web site. Apparently I have to download Homeseer (yet again), install
it (yet again) and then download the plug-in on a trial basis in order to
see the manual? What I did find was lots of discussions of problems and
bugs
in the forum. That's what has discouraged me from pursuing HomeSeer. For
example, it took forever to get the NAPCO security working and IIRC, in
the
end they ditched the original 3rd party plug-in.

Some folks thunk what HomeSeer v2 would improve things, but that hasn't
been
the case as far as I can tell...

Monitoring with undependable/intermittent data system can be very tedious.
Manual cleanup/bridging of the data set can unexpectedly consume the
lion's
share of the effort. That's part of why I discontinued using 1-wire. Early
versions of the temperature sensors were flakey. Apparently they've
improved, and the problems acknowledged, so I may give them another whirl.

Out of curiosity, what thermostats are you using? I've been happy with
Enerzone/Statnet/Aprilaire which uses a straight-forward ASCII command set
that could be adapted to homebrew devices.

... Marc
Marc_F_Hult
www.ECOntrol.org

I agree they don't make it easy to preview manuals. You can get a pretty
good picture of the capabilities by perusing the mcs temperature-specific
forum.

FWIW, I've been running HomeSeer 2 for about a month with no problems.

Re the thermostats, I'm using RCS, which is supported by a HomeSeer plug-in.
I've got a couple of zone controllers (a ZCV2 and a ZCV4) and five wall
display units (three TS40 and two TS16). The major installation effort is
running cable - all my existing thermostats are old-fashioned two-wire.

- Dennis Brothers